Online Computer Terms Dictionary - G

g-bell ==>

bell

<character> ASCII 7, ASCII mnemonic "BEL", the character code which
prodces a standard audibile warning from the computer or terminal. In the
teletype days it really was a bell, since the advent of the VDU it is more
likely to be a sound sample (e.g. the sound of a bell) played through a
loudspeaker.